Pre-Conference Workshops

What better way to get amped for Acquia Engage than with an exclusive learning experience? Due to the tremendous success we had last year, we will be hosting pre-conference workshops again this year, right here in our Boston office! We look forward to welcoming our registered Engage attendees to visit our space, and get some great guidance in Digital Portfolio Assessment, Product Ownership, Personalization & Content Best Practices as well as Practitioner Training on our Lift and Acquia Cloud Site Factory products.

The cost for a half-day training is $100 for either the morning or afternoon session. You’re also welcome to attend the full day for $150.

Check out the specifics below, and register today! But hurry, participation in the workshops is quite limited.

Morning workshop descriptions

Digital Portfolio

Time: 9 a.m. - noon

Target audience: CMO, VP Digital Marketing, Product Managers

Executives, managers, and employees of all kinds are faced with a shifting business paradigm. Consumers are driving market change, expectations, and brand interaction like never before. The stakes are the highest they have ever been.

Are you ready to embrace the changes required to meet your customer demands? At Acquia we recognize this is challenging and we are here to help you succeed. We have designed a course around the critical steps individuals need to take when taking on a Digital Transformation project. Step #1 is understanding where your company is when it comes to digital. We call this our Digital Portfolio Assessment (DPA).

In this course you will learn how to align your digital roadmap with your business strategy, understand the impact of new operating and governance models, explore new delivery models and solutions, understand the impact to your team, and above all evaluate how to measure and sell your initiative to your internal stakeholders.

Implementing Continuous Delivery on Acquia Cloud

Time: 9 a.m. - noon

Target audience: Technical architects, developers, and QA specialists

Using best practices for development is important, especially for enterprise sites that "can't fail." But implementing processes like continuous integration and delivery can be difficult. Acquia’s new Continuous Delivery tools make it easy.

Learn how to increase the reliability, quality, and speed of your development cycles using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on Acquia Cloud. Catch bugs before they’re merged into your codebase and preview changes before it’s time to release!

In this course you will learn how to continuously assure the quality of your Drupal application
and streamline your development workflow by running automated tests, validating custom code, and spinning up On-demand Development Environments automatically.

Requirements: Please bring a laptop with a Unix or OSX environment (Windows users may use VMs).

In this course, you will learn about best practices for adding personalization into your existing digital marketing program. This interactive workshop will begin with a brief demo of Lift, followed by a discussion of the top business concerns with personalization, including: staff resourcing, interpreting analytics, and brainstorming personalization ideas.

In this course, you will learn how to configure Acquia Lift and connect it with other components of your MarTech stack. This interactive workshop will begin with a brief demo of Lift, followed by a walkthrough of configuring Lift, instrumenting events, using connectors and APIs, creating slots, and managing structured content.

ACSF: Preparing for Multisite Delivery and Governance

Time: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Target audience: Digital Platform Managers, architects, CTOs, CDOs

Digital technology executives and platform organizations are faced with hyper expanding applications for digital experience sites supporting local marketing campaigns to global branding and commerce deployments. The increasing requirements for creative flexibility, controlling costs, and managing multi-site consistency, availability, and security are driving organizations to take a strategic approach to digital platform management and governance. The desire to increase digital business and platform technology performance to a new level of trusted service provider status is increasing the adoption of a common platform for digital delivery and site governance.

Room setup details: No laptops, no phones, notebooks and pens are provided for participants, short tables facing forward

"Agile" means many things to many people and organizations. Some components can vary depending on the nature of work and skill set of the team. However, there are a few fundamentals that can simply make or break the success of your project; one being the important role of the product owner.

This workshop is intended to reinforce the product owner’s role in a project environment, their impact on the quality and success of a project, and skills needed to ensure the product owner can contribute heavily to successful project deliveries. We will cover what project team members should expect from the product owner, best practices for product owners, and their ‘day in the life of’ activities.

The course will start with a quick primer on Agile, with topics on story writing and grooming as well as sprint planning and managing stakeholder expectations. The session will culminate in a retrospective for all attendees to share in and learn from others’ experiences.